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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] rdma: add a new IB_ACCESS_GIFT flag


From: Roland Dreier
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] rdma: add a new IB_ACCESS_GIFT flag
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 14:03:33 -0700

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Michael R. Hines
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Sorry, I was wrong. ignore the comments about cgroups. That's still broken.
> (i.e. trying to register RDMA memory while using a cgroup swap limit cause
> the process get killed).
>
> But the GIFT flag patch works (my understanding is that GIFT flag allows the
> adapter to transmit stale memory information, it does not have anything to
> do with cgroups specifically).

The point of the GIFT patch is to avoid triggering copy-on-write so
that memory doesn't blow up during migration.  If that doesn't work
then there's no point to the patch.

 - R.



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